Saturday, February 21, 2009

The Bronze Age of Blogs has beautiful, readable jpegs of the first episode of the comic Gullivar Jones, Warrior of Mars, which was published in the Vol. 1, No. 16, March 1972 issue of Marvel Comics' Creatures on the Loose. Written by Roy Thomas and initially drawn by Gil Kane, Gullivar Jones, Warrior of Mars was short lived. It ran in just six issues of Creatures on the Loose and each episode was only ten-pages long. The storyline was based loosely upon Edwin L. Arnold’s classic Martian SF novel Lieut. Gulliver Jones: His Vacation (1905).

"I'm an optimist. I discard all such dark tomorrows. I have faith in man as God and God as man; I believe we'll be immortal, seed the stars and live forever in the flesh of our children. That's my job as a writer -- to show man his basic goodness, to dramatize his struggle up and away from this planet." -- RB